Culver City, California, United States
BARRY PTOLEMY is a 25 year veteran to the entertainment industry, having produced, written or directed dozens of high profile projects. He is most famous for his film Transcendent Man, on the life and ideas of Ray Kurzweil. The film was heralded by a TIME cover story the week it was released and it went on to become a global sensation earning him a Jury prize nomination at the Tribeca International Film Festival and won him the top 10 documentaries of the year prize by the IDA. In addition, the film was inducted into the ACADEMY COLLECTION at AMPAS. Barry has attracted some of the biggest names in the world to his productions, such as Vice President Al Gore, William Shatner, Bill Maher, Quincy Jones, Elon Musk, Ray Kurzweil, Suzanne Sommers, Florence Henderson, Steve Wozniak, Colin Powell, Michio Kaku, Deepak Chopra and many more. Barry has appeared on Charlie Rose and has spoken at TED. He is also appeared as an expert on accelerating technologies on CNN, MSNBC, FOX, and HUFF POST live, Big Think and Voice of America to name just a few. Barry has lectured at Google, Singularity University and many other tech companies.
Executive Producer
Creator and Showrunner of "Afterlife" for the Nat Geo channel.
Creator and Showrunner for the TV show "Ray Kurzweil Presents Our Future" from concept through pilot development.
Showrunner for the original 8 part series on AOL starring Jason Silva which has been critically acclaimed and watched by millions
Transcendent Man is the highly acclaimed feature film on the life and ideas of Ray Kurzweil that was selected by the Tribeca Film Festival, AFI, Sundance and IDFA film festivals. It went on to become the most talked about documentary of the year with appearances by myself or my subject Ray Kurzweil on Charlie Rose, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Howard Stern as well as praise from top critics. It was also one of the most popular films on iTunes, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Netflix, Blockbuster and Best Buy remaining in the Top 10 on iTunes and Amazon for 12 weeks. IDA said it was one of the best documentaries of the year.